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Source: Former Alabama QB Freddie Kitchens an expected target for offensive coordinator vacancy Former Alabama quarterback Freddie Kitchens has been an assistant coach with the Arizona Cardinals since 2007. (AP photo)

-- Alabama plans on targeting Freddie Kitchens, the former Crimson Tide quarterback who has spent the past seven seasons on the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff, as a potential replacement for departing offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier, a source told on Thursday.

Kitchens, 39, spent the past year as the Cardinals' quarterback coach, working under his former offensive coordinator at Alabama, Bruce Arians. He was the Cardinals' tight ends coach for the previous six seasons.

Kitchens, who was a graduate assistant under Saban at LSU in 2000, has coached in the SEC before, spending two years at Mississippi State as a tight ends (2005) and running backs (2004) coach. He was the running backs coach at North Texas from 2001-2003.

A three-year starter at Alabama, Kitchens went 22-13 and threw for 4,668 yards and 30 touchdowns from 1995-97.

Saban is searching for his fourth offensive coordinator since 2007. After two seasons, Nussmeier left Wednesday to replace Al Borges at Michigan.

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